I'm running behind this week, and I've only just got round to reading my
copy of Le Monde Hebdo from 31st May. There is a full page article on the
crisis in the French health service, original date 23 May. Here is a
taster:
<<At the root of this fiasco: the staggering shortage of nursing staff.
"With the closure of training schools, the main cause of the shortage, and
the application of the 35 hour working week, the result is there:
catastrophe!" says with alarm the chief service manager, Catherine
Toffolon, herself a former nurse. She gives a simple example of the current
situation: "Before ... children who have hurt their fingers by jamming them
in the door would be kept in for at least a night. Now, they're being given
a bandage and told to come back tomorrow. Just to get the bed!">>
from: N Bastuck et al., Hopitaux: rien ne va plus, Le Monde 23.5.03
Paul Spicker
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